My close friend and Quilt Teacher Margaret Bucklew takes you step by step, showing how to create portrait quilts using photography software (many versions including free ones) and careful fabric selection. If you have a treasured photo, this is the technique for you!

She has several videos about the process on her YouTube Channel and she even teaches Classes Online. To learn more about Margaret I recommend visiting her blog and signing up for new newsletter, in which she often gives away patterns, machine quilting designs and digital images.

Donna Poster is a quilting teacher, quilt book author and pattern designer. Famous for her Foldy Stuff Donna has decided to make a series of videos about basic quiltmaking. Here she’s giving a breakdown of a basic quilt block, with some notes on color.

RaNae Merrill shows excerpts of her Magnificent Mirror Mandala Class in this clip, which includes how she starts drawing her spirals. RaNae teaches quilting internationally and can be contacted at ranae @ ranaemerrillquilts.com

Jinny Beyer shows how she uses border print fabrics in her quilts. Be sure to check out
her website for “Jinny’s Corner” and sign up for her newsletter, it’s one of the nicest newsletters I receive and I love seeing it show up in my email.